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Page 69
... deckhouse and well deck , running rigging was neatly racked up on the belaying pins , and everything made shipshape about the decks . The steel men - of - war at the docks were busy " clearing ship " - getting rid of unnecessary ...
... deckhouse and well deck , running rigging was neatly racked up on the belaying pins , and everything made shipshape about the decks . The steel men - of - war at the docks were busy " clearing ship " - getting rid of unnecessary ...
Page 86
... deck- house . A substantial ridgepole ran amidships just under the main boom . A heavy plank platform was laid across this framework . On the deck under it , the roof of the deckhouse , went a layer of sandbags . In theory , the wood ...
... deck- house . A substantial ridgepole ran amidships just under the main boom . A heavy plank platform was laid across this framework . On the deck under it , the roof of the deckhouse , went a layer of sandbags . In theory , the wood ...
Page 125
... deckhouse to the poop . " Christ ! It's us ! " he yelled . " We're on fire ! " Smoke was billowing out of the after deckhouse door from a scuttle that led down to a lazarette under the poop and abaft the engine room . In the darkness ...
... deckhouse to the poop . " Christ ! It's us ! " he yelled . " We're on fire ! " Smoke was billowing out of the after deckhouse door from a scuttle that led down to a lazarette under the poop and abaft the engine room . In the darkness ...
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